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Five teachers from Maine Prairie spoke to the Board of Trustees on Thursday night, September 7, 2023, during public comment to voice their displeasure stating such things as “we shouldn’t have to share with outsiders” and “I don’t like what I have heard about the Teen Center.”
Public comment against the city manager increase were directed at a loss of transparency in that the expenditures would only be found in the lengthy enumeration of claims, councilman Jim Ernest stated he wanted to leave “non-budgeted” limits at $25,000 to which the city manager Jim Lindley responded that all non-budgeted expenditures had to come before the council, presumably on the consent calendar. Lindley went further to say, “this is not taxpayer money, this is developer money”.
Zawadski said that city administrative overhead being charged to water enterprise projects was 76.19% of whatever the cost of a project is. Her lame presentation
I have called for the termination of the public school system in Dixon. I have attended school board meetings in Vacaville, Fairfield, and Dixon and see no hope for the government run bureaucracy essentially run for the benefit of administrators, staff and the teachers’ union which is transfixed on destroying the nuclear family plus indoctrination of a Marxist agenda, which is much the same as seen in local government councils throughout California. As one councilman in Dixon recently retorted, “what would you do? Eliminate permits, licenses, and government?”. The easily justifiable answer is a resounding “YES!!!”
“Do Your Best Job, Even
When Mopping the Floor,
and the Rewards Will Come”
Shari Borkin
Without honest
elections we are ruled by despots and have no control over winning candidates or any issues on
the ballot—bond measures, tax increases, policies, etc. Without honest fair elections, we are
subjects, not citizens of a republic.
Over the past several years a myriad of court cases across the country have been filed allegin
The Water Rate Advisory Committee meeting proved how statistics can be made to lie. Finance director Kate Zawadski presented only half of the staff report on the water system financials, that of the accounting balances in four separate funds, to illustrate the supposed dire financial condition of the city run water system.
Left out was the staff report on yearly revenues versus expenses which tells quite a different story depending on a person’s expertise in digesting this material. While Zawadski claims that the system had an “operational loss” in every year, the truth of the matter is depreciation, a non-cash expenditure which is an accounting tool for tax purposes and which does not reflect the true replacement cost of the assets involved, was the “expense” driving these losses.
Five teachers from Maine Prairie spoke to the Board of Trustees on Thursday night, September 7, 2023, during public comment to voice their displeasure stating such things as “we shouldn’t have to share with outsiders” and “I don’t like what I have heard about the Teen Center.”
One member of the public did respond, however, expressing the need for the Board to hear details as to how the Teen Center would be managed, what programs would be offered and, in response to one teacher’s remarks on expansion of programs, exactly what expansion ideas and plans were being offered by those in charge of Maine Prairie.
What is this major well maintenance issue, why isn’t it identified here, and why has the city not told you whether it was discussed at past water rate advisory …
The only substantive agenda item was a “further discussion regarding the approval of a Little League Commemorative Plaque placement at the Dixon Little League fields in Hall Park.” The 8- to 10-year-old “All Stars” competed and won for the first time against teams in District 5, which is made up of teams from Vacaville, Rio Vista, Winters, Woodland, Davis, and Dixon. There are two other groups of teams which have won four times in the past.
Five teachers from Maine Prairie spoke to the Board of Trustees on Thursday night, September 7, 2023, during public comment to voice their displeasure stating such things as “we shouldn’t have to share with outsiders” and “I don’t like what I have heard about the Teen Center.”
Public comment against the city manager increase were directed at a loss of transparency in that the expenditures would only be found in the lengthy enumeration of claims, councilman Jim Ernest stated he wanted to leave “non-budgeted” limits at $25,000 to which the city manager Jim Lindley responded that all non-budgeted expenditures had to come before the council, presumably on the consent calendar. Lindley went further to say, “this is not taxpayer money, this is developer money”.
Zawadski said that city administrative overhead being charged to water enterprise projects was 76.19% of whatever the cost of a project is. Her lame presentation
I have called for the termination of the public school system in Dixon. I have attended school board meetings in Vacaville, Fairfield, and Dixon and see no hope for the government run bureaucracy essentially run for the benefit of administrators, staff and the teachers’ union which is transfixed on destroying the nuclear family plus indoctrination of a Marxist agenda, which is much the same as seen in local government councils throughout California. As one councilman in Dixon recently retorted, “what would you do? Eliminate permits, licenses, and government?”. The easily justifiable answer is a resounding “YES!!!”
“Do Your Best Job, Even
When Mopping the Floor,
and the Rewards Will Come”
Shari Borkin
Without honest
elections we are ruled by despots and have no control over winning candidates or any issues on
the ballot—bond measures, tax increases, policies, etc. Without honest fair elections, we are
subjects, not citizens of a republic.
Over the past several years a myriad of court cases across the country have been filed allegin
The Water Rate Advisory Committee meeting proved how statistics can be made to lie. Finance director Kate Zawadski presented only half of the staff report on the water system financials, that of the accounting balances in four separate funds, to illustrate the supposed dire financial condition of the city run water system.
Left out was the staff report on yearly revenues versus expenses which tells quite a different story depending on a person’s expertise in digesting this material. While Zawadski claims that the system had an “operational loss” in every year, the truth of the matter is depreciation, a non-cash expenditure which is an accounting tool for tax purposes and which does not reflect the true replacement cost of the assets involved, was the “expense” driving these losses.
Five teachers from Maine Prairie spoke to the Board of Trustees on Thursday night, September 7, 2023, during public comment to voice their displeasure stating such things as “we shouldn’t have to share with outsiders” and “I don’t like what I have heard about the Teen Center.”
One member of the public did respond, however, expressing the need for the Board to hear details as to how the Teen Center would be managed, what programs would be offered and, in response to one teacher’s remarks on expansion of programs, exactly what expansion ideas and plans were being offered by those in charge of Maine Prairie.
What is this major well maintenance issue, why isn’t it identified here, and why has the city not told you whether it was discussed at past water rate advisory …
The only substantive agenda item was a “further discussion regarding the approval of a Little League Commemorative Plaque placement at the Dixon Little League fields in Hall Park.” The 8- to 10-year-old “All Stars” competed and won for the first time against teams in District 5, which is made up of teams from Vacaville, Rio Vista, Winters, Woodland, Davis, and Dixon. There are two other groups of teams which have won four times in the past.
